Bill Text: MI HB4952 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Public employees and officers; ethics; conflicts of interest; expand to immediate family members of public employees and officers and to members of the state board of ethics and their immediate family members. Amends title & sec. 2 of 1973 PA 196 (MCL 15.342).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-09-17 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 09/17/2019 [HB4952 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-HB4952-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 4952
September 12, 2019, Introduced by Rep. Marino
and referred to the Committee on Elections and Ethics.
A bill to amend 1973 PA 196, entitled
"An act to prescribe standards of conduct for public officers and employees; to create a state board of ethics and prescribe its powers and duties; and to prescribe remedies and penalties,"
by amending the title and section 2 (MCL 15.342), the title as amended by 1980 PA 481 and section 2 as amended by 1984 PA 53.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
An act to prescribe standards of conduct for public officers and employees and others; to create a state board of ethics and prescribe its powers and duties; and to prescribe remedies and penalties.
Sec. 2. (1) A public officer or employee shall not divulge, to an unauthorized person, confidential information acquired in the course of employment in advance of before the time prescribed for its authorized release to the public.
(2) A public officer or employee shall not represent his or her personal opinion as that of an agency.
(3) A public officer or employee shall use personnel resources, property, and funds under the officer or employee's official care and control judiciously and solely in accordance with pursuant to prescribed constitutional, statutory, and regulatory procedures and not for personal gain or benefit.
(4) A public officer or employee, or a member of his or her immediate family, shall not solicit or accept a gift or loan of money, goods, services, or other thing of value for the benefit of a person or organization, other than the this state, which that tends to influence the manner in which the public officer or employee or another public officer or employee performs official duties.
(5) A public officer or employee shall not engage in a business transaction in which the public officer or employee, or a member of his or her immediate family, may profit from his or her official position or authority or benefit financially from confidential information which that the public officer or employee has obtained or may obtain by reason of that position or authority. Instruction which that is not done during regularly scheduled working hours except for annual leave or vacation time shall is not be considered a business transaction pursuant to under this subsection if the instructor does not have any direct dealing with or influence on the employing or contracting facility associated with his or her course of employment with this state.
(6) Except as provided in section 2a, a public officer or employee shall not engage in or accept employment or render services for a private or public interest when if that employment or service is incompatible or in conflict with the discharge of the officer or employee's official duties or when if that employment may tend to impair his or her independence of judgment or action in the performance of official duties.
(7) Except as provided in section 2a, a public officer or employee shall not participate in the negotiation or execution of contracts, making of loans, granting of subsidies, fixing of rates, issuance of permits or certificates, or other regulation or supervision relating to a business entity in which the public officer or employee, or a member of his or her immediate family, has a financial or personal interest.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.
